Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-06-18
Senor Valencia Hits Back.

painfully imprdssed by reading what
 you say on me and my letter on Csieme
 lately published in the CITIZEN, l osn-
 not but recognize the right you and
 everybody else have to judge things and
 criticise events, and am ready to admit
 that the Estsndpoint from which one
 looks st bis own home affairs, must of
 course be very different and distant
 from that which strangers view if from.
 Reason and judgment are, in fact. in-
 imitsble. They are are absolute ideas
 and since they cease to be so, they be-
 come but passion, We both pretend to
 be right in our appreciation of the gov
 ernments conduct in the Csieme case.
 Which is the wrong one? Neither; for
 they are relative not to each other but
 to our respective situations. l demon
 strste: Were an American, or rather
 United States citizen. my judgment
 on the execution of CsIeme would, per
 hsps. be the very same as yours. On
 the reverse, were you to be a Mexican,
 you would. without a "perhsps." esti-
 mate the affair ss I do. My demonstrs-
 tion goes on: Cajeme looks but like a
 suckling if compared with Geronimo.
 We have killed the first, however, and
 you have spared the latter. A striking
 paralell, IS it not? And the reason?
 Very simple indeed. Your temporiZlng
 with the red devils cost you little more
 than appearing too generous ana blood.
 hating. When the ssvages rage ot
 blood and pillsge thrust itself through
 the frontier and came and spread terror
 and desolstion in Sonora, but little you
 knew then what the pIice of contempor-
 izinR with Q wild beast was. A proof
 that when, in its defyiDg insolence. It
 showed you its teeth, you conclude that
 generosity was too dear, and contining
 them to the svsmps of Florida, doomed
 the vanquished de fscto to unavoidable
 death.
 Let us now face the other lire of the
 parallel. All know that suspicion and
 jealousy constitute the charscterlstlcal
 feature of the Indian character. In
 spite of that the Yaqui and Mayo In.
 dians have not summed the society of
 the whites, when 1t has been only the
 affair of coming to their towns and get
 ting work and money from them. But
 whenever the government has tried to
 implant in their own sbodes such bene-
 fits ss they have to seek abroad, rebel lion has risen in the Ysqui, its inhsbi- tants have cried of robbery of their
 lands. The famous Virsm law, sister to Lynch's, has made ID a single day double the victims that were made the last campaign, thousands of white peO- pie having perished under the Indian s mscsna. This Is history, my dear editor, and my private connections can not be suspected of framing so bold a fslsifcstion of long past and well known events. Now pray, what would the | grand American nation have done ln | that case? Might she have seen her citizens murdered, their farms plum | dered, their town rsZed, and then spare | the foe just because he was an almost | irresponsible creature, instead ot ar resting his rage by one or an other way We had not done it because the cycle | of our political misfortunes ended but 8 | decade or little more ago; because We were divided and weak, because the Pegasus of the Republic could not be born, but from the blood of the Colonial | New Spain. The American people | whose powerful impulse towards the summit of the Linsi-CivilizstIon has every element and bRnished every obstacle, and like furious stream becomes by them but the more Irrlslstl- ble and terrible. The American people cannot imagine what 8 modification 1t IS Tor the government of a country to see ID the midst of it one Lozads or ono Csieme or one Mir, so and so proclaim ing himself an independent power, iefyiug laws, insulting society snd erecting ss right of man the right of rebellion. And you ,Rnnot imagine that beosuse the few Indian tribes still extsnt in the U. $. are kept by your government ike beasts in 8 cage and just for a 'how, or under the constant influence of progress and civilization have gone to ped Indisns and awakened next day Americans. Idle might seem all what l nave just said were It not that l de- ,lded to consider the matter from your. Dwn standpoint. svow that from mine 10 such explanations are needed, as we III feel here that if much good may be ioneby the Ysquis, their leader CaIeme would be if spared a pertetusl hindrsnce UT OuE hCtlOu buht ecuccs do bAS CAAo- ,ence could not be else than an unex- ling guishsble hope, for hls subjects, of to war, and hence constant to peace. "Anch io son pIitore." l am a little of poet, too, and as such detest legal murders and death as a pen Alty. The YsQui chiefs character had in 1t sn energy and intelligence unoOm- mon, and stood head and shoulders over his Mexican sdyerssries, as ycu will have it; but he was, with sll his great ness, nothing but 8 nuisance, and he left all that he could leave of greater bis history.
 As for my interest in writing in the way I do, you wrong me greatly, my dear editor. by sttributing it 10 connec- lions Of mIne of any kind. l never an swer injuries; if l deserve them for it s effrontery; if not, for they, then, des- troy themselves. Time wIll learn you 10 do me justice and convince you that ove of my country, striving for its peace